Can you say innovation?

Because we here at Judge have been given 3 afternoons(1 for teachers, 2 for students) this fall to focus on Innovation-I have been reading two great books I recommend to you. I really love fiction so this was a real leap for me, but you might also enjoy. Daniel Pink's Drive (Ted Talk here) I found it fascinating in the application to my world, education. I think we really need to prepare for the future and keeping education in the same archaic format based on the 1900's seems unproductive to say the least. Pink doesn't really focus on education here, it is really on what motivates us-take a look. The other one I'm reading is by Tim Brown, Change by Design-how design thinking transforms organizations and inspires innovation Again it is interesting when you think of applying these ideas to education. "First, a successful experience requires active consumer participation. Second, a customer experience that feels authentic,genuine, and compelling is likely to be delivered by employees operating within an experience culture themselves." Think about that in education. What if education was an experience culture? Can we at least imagine if teachers and students designed education around authentic, genuine and compelling ideals? That lessons required active participation? I know not all of my readers are in education, but as I read these two I couldn't help thinking of that. Try reading them and applying to your own experience. I think you will learn something. I certainly did